I don’t know what my parent’s generation thought when The Stones came out with Harlam Shuffle, but it might feel a little like what I feel reading this.

Thanks(?) to Will for the heads-up.

I am broke, and my apartment is crowded. Soooo… I am selling all my old crap on eBay! There will be more stuff for sale periodically, I will post updates here.

Vinyl Records!
Computer crap!
A catalogue from 1912!
Old musty baseball hats!
An oddly shaped cassette player!

If anything looks at all interesting, take a look.

There is website that asks if all Asian nationalities actually look the same. There is a quiz to find out how well you tell apart Chinese, Japanese and Korean people. I scored a 10/18, a little above the average of 7. “You are OK” says alllooksame.com. Probably a fluke. With only 18 questions I have my doubts that this can be considered at all scientific.

Q: Why so many entries Mason?

A: Just speeding up the inevitable.

That should be my new slogan!

There is a petition to save a repository of typefaces in France that has be preserving type from the 16^th century onward.

If you are a type fan, or if you don’t care what petitions you sign, go on and do it.

From the Typophile mailing list.

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Do yourself a favor and check out Jon Stewart‘s appearance on Crossfire. The amount of disgust he has for the american media could not be more evident as he fights their attempts to reign him in. Seconds before a commercial break he manages to call Tucker Carlson (one of the hosts) a “dick” on live, national TV. I have never seen the show before but it seems to me that Jon can’t be that far off the mark. He seemed like an asshole to me too.

BoingBoing has links to downloads.

UPDATED: Stewart’s response from last night’s Daily Show is here(updated again, as old link is dead). And the Washington Post tallies the responses here

So I figured that I could count the number of people that read this thing could be counted on my fingers, with change to spare. From what I could gather Eric, Alison, Susie, Kevin, Anja, Wil, Dawn, Joe and Rick were my only readers. Quite a feat though to have any amount of people read a webpage that only gets updated sporadically and when it does get updated, it is either adolecent musings or stuff stolen from other (better) blogs.

I have been blessed with not just one, but two fans that seem to have gotten here, not because they have some guilty need to check up on me, like those people mentioned above may feel, but because� because� Well I don’t know why. The first is Nikki, a regular in the Flashcube comments areas, who wrote a wonderful email flattering me to no end, just to get a gmail invite that I would have been happy to part with if she had only said “Hey fucko, gimmie one of them-there gmail invites.”

You know, mason,
It would make me feel so included… SO included… in this great big world
of ours, if only I could have a Gmail account for my very own. One to call
my own! The anticipation laps at me in such delicious waves I almost cannot
bear to think of it. In fact, you would no longer be your own biggest fan
if you could procure such a thrill for me. Why, do you ask?

Becuase I would be.

Yes, I said it. In fact, I would be SUCH a fan I would no longer pine to be
in Eric Skilling’s kissy fan club-because I would have you.

You know it’s true. Everything I do. I do it foorrrrrr…Gmail

Love ya babe!
Nikki

As if that were not enough, today I receive another email, while not so wordy and erm, adoring, was quite nice as well. Especially coming from someone who probably leads a much, much more compelling existence than I do. Read her blog here: A New York Escort’s Confessions and be educated.

UPDATED:Mike is pouting because he is not in the frequent reader club. Had he realized that he had let his membership lapse because he hadn’t bought the extended warranty at time of purchase, he would know he had nothing to complain about.

This article (and map below) shows the concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) a substance with the darling qualities of causing “respiratory problems and lung damage, and can also contribute to harmful ozone forming near ground level”

Check out Canada. Of course Toronto and the various other big cities around the great lakes are all red, but what surprised me is how clean Vancouver is� and that Calgary is nudging on the red end of the scale.

Click image for full-size.

NME has a nice little review of the newest Ian Brown single. Essentially it says “yeah Ian might not be The Stone Roses anymore, but he isn’t as disappointing as Bono.”

The nice little bit on building forts with couch cushions is what really won me over, but then again I am a little drunk at the moment, so my objectivity might be suspect.

Read it here.

not the Ian Brown I am talking about